Religion Without God and God Without Religion, Volumes 1-2Bemrose & Sons, 1885 - Agnosticism |
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absolutely abstrac abstraction action adjustment agents Agnostic Agnosticism animal appearance assertion assumption Atheist attributes Auguste Comte axiom believe body called Catéchisme cause chimera Christianity Clotilde de Vaux cognizable Comte Comte's Comtist conceive conception consciousness Creator dead earth existence external fact feeling finite force Goddess Harrison Herbert Spencer human mind idea ignorance ignoratio elenchi illusion inorganic intellect intelligence knowable knowledge known Krooman Littré living matter means mental metaphysical moral motion move movement nature nescience never object observation organic origin Pantheism pass person phenomena philosophy physical physical laws Pierre Lafitte Politique Positive Positivism Positivist presuppose priests principle processes properties Queen Victoria question race reality reason relations religion rule self-existence sense sight space speak Spencer Spiritual Power substance sum total suppose temporal power things thought tion true universe unknowable word worship
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Page 538 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel trans formation.
Page 401 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to...
Page 187 - Consequently, the final outcome of that speculation commenced by the primitive man is that the Power manifested throughout the Universe distinguished as material, is the same Power which in ourselves wells up under the form of consciousness.
Page 234 - The mental act in which self is known implies, like every other mental act, a perceiving subject and a perceived object. If, then, the object perceived is self, what is the subject that perceives ? Or if it is the true self which thinks, what other self can it be that is thought of? Clearly, a true cognition of self implies a state in which the knowing and the known are one — in which subject and object are identified; and this Mr. Mansel rightly holds to be the annihilation of both.
Page 462 - Can the oscillation of a molecule be represented in consciousness side by side with a nervous shock, and the two be recognized as one ? No effort enables us to assimilate them. That a unit of feeling has nothing in common with a unit of motion, becomes more than ever manifest when we bring the two into juxtaposition.
Page 250 - A cognition of the Real, as distinguished from the Phenomenal, must, if it exists, conform to this law of cognition in general. The First Cause, The Infinite, the Absolute, to be known at all, must be classed. To be positively thought of, it must be thought of as such or such — as of this or that kind.
Page 171 - So that the personality of which each is conscious, and of which the existence is to each a fact beyond all others the most certain, is yet a thing which cannot truly be known at all: knowledge of it is forbidden by the very nature of thought.
Page 277 - For those who, not deterred by foregone conclusions, have pushed their analyses to the uttermost, see very clearly that the concept we form to ourselves of Matter, is but the symbol of some form of Power absolutely and for ever unknown to us...
Page 366 - ... is led into the error of supposing that it was not the impulse alone which determined the action. But the entire group of psychical states which constituted the antecedent of the action, 1 Prin.